List of Latin place names in Africa

This list includes African countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde.

For genealogists and historians of pre-Modern Europe, knowing alternate names of places is vital to extracting information from both public and private records.

Even specialists in this field point out, however, that the information can be easily taken out of context, since there is a great deal of repetition of place names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology.

As an aid to searching, variants are spelled completely, and listed in most likely chronology.